CPS hires 2 for key executive posts
Chicago Public Schools has hired a chief special education officer and a former employee of the business consultant McKinsey & Co. to...
CPS hires two new department heads
Chicago Public Schools this week hired a chief special education officer and a former employee of the business consultant McKinsey & Co....
CPS teachers turn up the heat on school board with protest
Despite a breakthrough in contract talks on the key issue of longer days, hundreds of Chicago Public Schools teachers showed up for a...
University of Illinois law school censured, fined $250,000
The University of Illinois' law school has been censured and fined $250,000 for intentionally publishing false admissions data to make the...
Chicago school board delays budget vote, worries charter leaders
The Chicago school board's decision to postpone Wednesday's scheduled vote on a $5.73 billion budget for 2012-13 because of uncertainty over...
CPS finds few wins after school reform legislation
A year after legislators passed a controversial law intended to overhaul education in Illinois, it appears that Chicago still ain't ready...
U. of I. board kills controversial contract
Under pressure from a state oversight panel, the University of Illinois board of trustees on Thursday killed a contentious, multimillion-...
Education Reform Now puts up new radio ad, urging CTU and CPS to reach new contract that ensures longer school day
An education reform group that earlier this year placed radio ads urging teachers not to take a strike vote put out a new ad on Thursday,...
State task force on school closing issues cancels meeting after threats of a protest
Members of an Illinois legislative task force on school closing issues said they were forced to cancel a meeting featuring Chicago Public...
U. of I. likely to review multimillion-dollar contract
University of Illinois board Chairman Christopher Kennedy signaled Wednesday that trustees will reconsider a multimillion-dollar contract...
Arbitrator scolds CPS, teachers union for stubbornness as threat of strike looms
After nine months of contentious negotiations, Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union have barely budged from their initial positions...
Panel again votes to void U. of I. contract over conflict of interest
A state oversight board has skewered the University of Illinois and recommended voiding an architectural contract for violating state...
Arbitrator's report will help CTU bring back issues they wanted to discuss at negotiations
An arbitrator's recommendation that Chicago teachers get raises starting at nearly 15 percent gives union officials additional leverage...
University of Illinois to offer free online courses
The University of Illinois will offer seven free online courses this fall, giving students around the world a chance to sample an...
State test scores up in CPS — but increase is the lowest in 7 years
Students at Chicago Public Schools again did better on a state standardized test last year, but the gains were the lowest in seven years.
CPS, teachers union set to reject arbitrator's report
Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union this week are both expected to reject an arbitrator's long-awaited fact-finding report,...
CPS says 26 employees lied get their kids free or reduced-price lunches
Twenty principals and assistant principals are among 26 current and former Chicago Public Schools employees who provided false income...
University of Illinois criticized after contract raises conflict of interest concerns
The University of Illinois handed out a $4.6 million contract to an architectural firm partially owned by the husband of a key administrator...
Teachers, activists boo CPS budget
Chicago Public Schools'proposed budget for the coming school year drew boos and hisses from more than 200 teachers and community activists...
CPS' bond rating is lowered, raising costs for troubled school district
Moody'sInvestors Serviceon Tuesday downgradedChicago Public Schools'bond rating after the cash-strapped district proposed a budget that...
Chicago Public Schools touts $144 million in savings for next budget
A day before the expected release of a budget that must address a gaping deficit, Chicago Public Schools said it has found ways to save...
U. of I. to pay ex-president's top aide $175,000 to quit
The University of Illinois will pay its former president's chief of staff $175,000 to resign from her faculty post and drop unresolved...
Illinois pressured to push up teacher evaluations
At 28, Evanston Township High School math teacher Zachary Herrmann is relatively new to the teaching profession, but he faces fundamental...
Easter takes reins at University of Illinois
Robert Easter took over as the University of Illinois' 19th president Monday, a beginning that many hope will bring an end to a rocky period...
Teachers attacked by students show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder
Six years ago, Norma Brown, a Chicago Public Schools teacher for more than 30 years, took a stand against a fourth-grader who refused to...
$365,000 extra, and counting
When high-ranking University of Illinois administrator Craig Bazzani retired in 2002, the board of trustees praised him for his financial...
Durbin queries USDA about school lunch abuses
Responding to a Tribune article on fraud risks in the federal free-lunch program, Sen. Dick Durbin on Friday sent a letter to Agriculture...
Many Illinois high school students get special testing accommodations for ACT
An unusually large number of Illinois public high school students — at least 1 out of 10 juniors — received extra time or...
High school test scores fall to a new low
About half of Illinois public high school students flunked state exams in reading, math and science this year, the worst performance in...
'Nation's Report Card' shows Illinois grade-schoolers' results are still low for reading but improving in math
One in 3 Illinois grade school students have the skills needed to proficiently read a work of literature or pinpoint the main idea of an...
CPS worker ethics probed
The inspector general for Chicago Public Schools is investigating allegations that the district's largest food vendor gave thousands of...
For students reporting sex attacks, imperfect justice
When a 19-year-old University of Notre Dame freshman first went to campus police to file a sexual assault report in late November, she did...
Bowman stepping down as head of CPS' early childhood program
Barbara Bowman, chief of Chicago Public Schools'early childhood program and mother of White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, is stepping...
Backlogs, leniency on new public records law
Attorney General Lisa Madigan has used her broad new authority over public records disputes to whittle at Illinois' long-standing culture of...
Unused sick days add up to big payouts
A few years into John Butts' superintendent job in DuPage's Lake Park High School District 108, a lucrative perk showed up in his contract:...
New CEO, Chicago Teachers Union president meet
Incoming schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard had his first meeting with Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis Monday, and here's the good...
New CPS leader discusses goals, challenges
Jean-Claude Brizard won't officially assume control of Chicago Public Schools for several weeks, but already he's immersing himself in the...
The pump rooms
The emergency call came from Minnesota, but it could have come from anywhere in the country. A new mother, at work and away from her baby,...
House Speaker Michael Madigan swayed University of Illinois to admit relatives of allies, donors
House Speaker Michael Madigan swayed the University of Illinois to admit the relatives of public officials, political allies and donors...
Lack of jobs leave many teachers wondering about future
Teaching no longer applies as a stable career choice, experts say.
OMG, what 2 wear? Girls get answers for school style
Back-to-school style this season is all mixed up.
Many driver's ed cars have poor crash ratings
Cost and fuel efficiency drive purchases of smaller cars. Many districts say they didn't think of safety when buying the cars.
Contract law and contractions
Recent law school graduates are known to labor over the high-stakes bar exam.
CPS' gifts to charities under scrutiny
In an era marked by spending cuts, layoffs and budget anxiety for Chicago Public Schools, district records show that former school board...
School free-lunch program dogged by abuses at CPS
When a teachers assistant at Chicago's North-Grand High School handed in her child's lunch form last school year, it showed that her...
Setting up possible union fight, Emanuel picks new team to helm CPS
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel pushed ahead with his pledge to reshape Chicago Public Schools on Monday, introducing an executive team led by a...
New ISAT lets kids pass with more wrong answers
Illinois has been cutting the number of points required to pass annual achievement exams, allowing children to flub more questions but still...
CPS report card shows many schools struggling
By Chicago Public Schools' own reckoning, about a quarter of its elementary schools and more than 40 percent of its high schools are...
Purdue student's virus work makes a name for herself
Any time Emilia Czyszczon gets bogged down in her biological engineering studies — any time she considers taking the easy route on...
Jean-Claude Brizard, Chicago's new schools chief, doesn't back down from a challenge
Described as passionate and stubborn, charismatic and calculating, Jean-Claude Brizard is the new face of reform for Chicago's distressed...
Private workers, public pensions
Jason Leahy hasn't set foot on the Illinois State University campus this school year, doesn't teach classes there and doesn't report to...
Faces of Fenger
In September they were two teens heading into senior year. Vashion "B.J." Bullock and Montrell Truitt lived in the same neighborhood on...
Teen suicide: More schools bring issue out of shadows
The paper handed to each freshman at Oak Lawn Community High School recently was filled with blunt and uncomfortable questions. Had they...
Educators question significance of grades for homework
Jami Dehn prepped homework packets to send home with her class of third-graders every Friday afternoon last year, carefully charting how...
Making the grade — in life — despite long odds
In a public school system where almost half the students don't graduate, Shannon Hastings could have been just another dropout.
New report chronicles misconduct within CPS
Chicago Public Schools employees repeatedly took advantage of lax oversight or exploited the system to benefit themselves financially during...
Northwestern's use of Google apps discriminates against the blind, federal complaint says
Northwestern University is targeted in a federal complaint filed Tuesday that alleges blind students and faculty face discrimination by...
High school football has high expenses, low revenue
Illinois' high school football playoffs start Friday, a season-ending reward for immense physical effort, shrewd game planning — and a...
Illinois students inch up ACT scores
Illinois' Class of 2011 posted the highest average ACT score in a decade — 20.9 — but the performance fell below the national...
Most school garden produce is forbidden fruit in CPS lunchrooms
It's harvest time in Chicago Public School gardens full of chubby tomatoes, heavy squash and fragrant basil.
School closing foes, board members set for showdown
Hundreds of community activists, parents, students and union leaders are expected to converge Wednesday morning at Chicago Public Schools'...
Meet the new CPS board members
Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel tapped a new team to lead the embattled Chicago Public Schools on Monday, including seven new members to...
Online learning attempts to make the grade in Chicago schools
Clinton Parker, a senior at Julian High School, worked quietly at his computer in August as the clicks of mice from more than a dozen...
Teachers accused of cheating still working in schools
Educators forced out or disciplined by local districts over cheating and other state testing violations continued working in schools or...
Chicago State let failing students stay on the rolls
Chicago State University, which was at risk of losing its accreditation because of troubling enrollment and retention figures, intentionally...
Emanuel to retain some City Colleges leaders
Rahm Emanuel is keeping some of outgoing Mayor Richard Daley's leadership team at the City Colleges of Chicago so it can see through a...
Chicago teachers deliver their union demands
The Chicago Teachers Union submitted a list of demands to the Chicago Public Schools on Friday as they and district administrators embark...
NIU official's house repainted on student volunteer day
Armed with tools and trash bags, the Northern Illinois University students who fanned out across DeKalb didn't just spruce up schools and...
Should students 'friend' teachers online?
Peter Kupfer has made it difficult for his physics students to claim they didn't know about a homework assignment.
Some CPS parents object to mandatory classroom breakfasts
For most school kids, a bowl of cereal and milk or a hot egg sandwich on a neighbor's desk would be no big deal.
Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home
Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school.
Civic Federation endorses CPS budget but fears future problem
The Civic Federation has thrown its support behind a property tax hike and proposed $5.9 billion budget for Chicago Public Schools in 2011-...
Relatives often find doors open to maintenance, teacher assistant jobs
How do relatives of school board members get in the door of a district?
National Education Association gives President Obama an early endorsement
The nation's largest teachers union voted Monday in Chicago to support President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid despite discord between...
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